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(11/19/17 11:12pm)
Emergency call boxes are tools that the local police use to help protect University of South Carolina students. The call boxes are tall, have blue lights on the top and bear a red button. If a student is in an emergency, whether someone is following them, attacking them or something else, the student can hit the red button and police will rush to the scene. These are great for protecting students, especially freshmen who do not have cars and must walk at night. That is why they must be at all major places where freshmen walk.
(11/16/17 1:57am)
Sean Hannity is a man who thrives on controversy. It fuels viewership, and Hannity’s particularly combative and divisive take on current events has made his show one of the most consistently popular on cable television. However, the controversy can get away from him sometimes. Last Thursday, on his radio show, Hannity appeared to defend Republican senate candidate Roy Moore against allegations of sexual misconduct towards minors during his time as assistant district attorney in Alabama. The backlash was swift. Despite later clarifying his statement, calls went up for advertisers to ditch Hannity’s show over the comments. As it currently stands, Hannity has lost 11 advertisers, including Volvo and Keurig.
(11/16/17 1:57am)
After a shooting Tuesday morning that left five dead and ten injured — including the gunman’s wife, who he murdered before turning his weapon on the people outside his home — gun violence is in the news again. Not that it really had time to leave it after the Sutherland Springs church shooting. Fortunately, although Kevin Neal’s sister says he has struggled with mental illness, uninformed gun control activists have yet to turn on the mentally ill in this particular case — because they’ve been distracted by an alternate explanation, which has been in the news since the Texas shooting: domestic violence, mostly against women in this case.
(11/16/17 1:57am)
The Nov. 7 elections are the magical event where, every four years, national news and opinion writers pretend to deeply care about Virginia for the sake of getting a little more horse-race coverage out of their systems after the presidential election.
(11/13/17 1:32am)
If you’ve pulled an all-nighter at the Thomas Cooper Library and had a hankering for snacks to help you through your homework recently, you may have been disappointed by your options. Where’d you normally go for a cup of joe has been replaced by something strange.
(11/13/17 1:37am)
In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein allegations, it seems that almost no figure in the entertainment industry is beyond suspicion. A depressingly large amount of men and women have come forward and shed light on the seedy reality of the entertainment business: Sexual abuse and harassment run rampant, and often the perpetrators of these crimes are able to carry out their abhorrent behavior without fear of repercussion.
(11/13/17 1:46am)
College is all about making decisions. It’s the first time most students are able to independently choose lifestyles, communities and interests. And it’s the job of the university to facilitate and encourage good decision making. You may have seen some of the education posters on campus about responsible drinking and consent. Yet, with one of the most fundamental college decisions — which classes to take — the university leaves students in the dark.
(11/12/17 3:00am)
As Thanksgiving approaches, I become increasingly excited for a break from school, going home to my family and a feast of home-cooked food. One thing I don’t really think about when Thanksgiving time rolls around are pilgrims, Christopher Columbus or Native Americans. What was once the “reason for the season” in relation to Thanksgiving has taken a back burner for most families — and for good reason. If you told me as a child that I would get half a week off from school to celebrate mass murder in the name of thankfulness, I would have laughed in your face.
(11/12/17 3:00am)
“Last but not least” sounds like a cute phrase until it precedes your lonely name on the back of everyone’s alphabetized senior recognition t-shirts. Having a last name at the end of the alphabet is a struggle unknown to many, and it is time to reverse the order of names on group projects to end the plight of the W through Z.
(11/09/17 2:50am)
As the Trump administration moves forward on its plan of deploying yet more troops into Afghanistan, we need to ask ourselves an important question, will this strategy finally win us the war? As I’ve written previously, simply building up and training the Afghan military into a more effective fighting force will not prove to be an effective strategy. Sure, they will kill more insurgents, but, as past conflicts have made evident, simply killing more insurgents will not win you the war.
(11/09/17 12:39am)
The idea that the judicial branch should be a political force is distasteful, yet many people agree with it. The judicial branch must serve as a nonpolitical power that checks the other branches; it cannot continue to be politicized.
(11/07/17 10:45pm)
For all the preparing we do before getting into and going to college, there’s one thing we are rarely warned about: the isolation that often accompanies moving away from home for the first time. Despite sharing a room with another person, a bathroom with many other people and a kitchen with your entire campus, living without any familiar faces can lead to really depressing isolation.
(11/06/17 3:00am)
Graduate school enrollment was on a steady incline until 2010, where a small decrease in enrollment numbers showed. The following two years showed a more severe drop in enrollment, though a study shows that it is slowly increasing back to the peak it reached in 2009. However, graduate school offers more than what is advertised to students and should be pursued more often than it is.
(11/06/17 12:11am)
Despite being used since ancient times across the globe, psychedelic drugs remain illegal and stigmatized in the United States. The DEA lists psychedelics as Schedule 1 drugs, meaning they are officially considered to have no more medicinal value than life-threatening substances like heroin. This flies in the face of the actual scientific evidence and medical literature, which has established that psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin mushrooms have tremendous potential for treating crippling mental afflictions such as depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder. Research into psychedelics was interrupted by the War on Drugs in 1970, but modern doctors have returned to the subject and found exciting medical possibilities that warrant further exploration.
(11/06/17 5:11am)
Raise your hand if you like daylight saving time.
(11/06/17 5:46am)
In my journey into the world of food production and waste, I stumbled upon a way I categorize my food that I never gave much thought to before. It’s something that most of us think about without realizing the consequences it has on the food system and the environment as a whole. That is the "perfectness" of a fruit or vegetable.
(11/03/17 9:52pm)
I have heard the same joke repeated all over the world: “Someone who knows three languages is multilingual, someone who knows two languages is bilingual and someone who knows one language is American.” Only 18% of Americans can speak a foreign language, compared to over half of Europeans. Foreign language education is vital to succeeding in a globalizing world, but the American education system fails to prioritize foreign language learning.
(11/02/17 12:21am)
Nov. 2 marks the 100-year anniversary of the historic Balfour Declaration, which ultimately led to the creation of the state of Israel. Authored by Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour in 1917, the document proclaimed the British Empire’s support for the creation of a national home for the Jewish people.
(11/02/17 12:11am)
Editor's note: Check out our news coverage of the counseling center's move to the new student health building.
(11/02/17 12:18am)
With endless assignments due for class, tuition bills always looming around the corner and trying to get as involved as possible on campus, the average college student has enough to worry about without spending an excessive amount on healthy food. When you’re pulling an all-nighter and Chick-fil-A is on the corner of your apartment building, it’s easiest to just stop in and pick something up.